Joining the Netroots’ Propaganda Machine
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So Open Left and Daily Kos are doing this thing called searching for John McCain. The basic idea is to get a couple of hundred websites to write John McCain’s name a bunch of times and have each mention link to one of the following nine articles:
1–John McCain Votes to Filibuster Minimum Wage Hike
2–McCain housing policy shaped by lobbyist
3–Bush, McCain plug Social Security
4–McCain blasts Obama’s and Clinton’s attacks on NAFTA
5–McCain in NH: Would Be “Fine” To Keep Troops in Iraq for “A Hundred Years”
6–McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion
7–Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition
8–McCain says overturn the law that legalized abortion
9–McCain Defends Bush’s Iraq Strategy
The goal is to have these articles appear in the first 20 results of a John McCain Google search.
I’m a little skeptical of this kind of propaganda. It seems a little dishonest. Or maybe just unsportsmanlike-like. Plus, I’m not a big fan of Obama and Clinton’s attacks on NAFTA either.
On the other hand, if Obama loses, I wouldn’t want to be left wondering what would have happened if I had passed this John McCain thing on. So here goes my version (forgive me, Shakespeare):
This day is call’d the feast of McCain.
He that outlives this McCain, and comes safe home,
Will McCain a tip-toe when this McCain is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of McCain.
He that shall live this McCain, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his McCain,
And say, “To-morrow is Saint McCain.”
Then will he strip his McCain and show his McCain,
And say, “These wounds I had on McCain day.”
Old McCain forget; yet McCain shall be McCain,
But McCain remember, with McCain, What feats McCain did that day. Then McCain our McCain,
Familiar in his McCain as household McCain,
McCain the King, McCain, and McCain, McCain and McCain, McCain and McCain,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good McCain teach his McCain;
And John McCain shall ne’er go by
From this McCain to the ending of the McCain,
But McCain in it shall be remember’d,
We few, we happy few, we band of McCain.
For McCain to-day that sheds his blood with McCain
Shall be my McCain ; be he ne’er so McCain,
This McCain shall McCain his McCain;
And McCain in England, now a-bed
Shall think McCain accurs’d McCain were not here,
And hold McCain manhoods cheap, whiles any McCain speaks
That fought with McCain upon Saint McCain day.
Please write McCain’s name in the comments, linking to one of the nine articles. Thanks!
um God Bless John McCain, all you liberals can try to link him to bush on everything and all i will say is Obama is Carter 2 and that is the worst president of all time so yeah. Make fun of McCain but we conservatives will be the one laughing when you leftwing antiamerican assholes dont run our country, but McCain runs your liberal candidate into thte ground.
After reading the comments of self proclaimed smart Americans ,I now believe that most are idiots!!! We Germany (Europeans) believe that most of you uneducated angry crazy fools will be used by rebublicans posing as Democrates on line (angry Clinton supporters) and persuading voters to vote for that old bad tempered war man named Macain.
The world is already thinking positive of USA because of an inspiring candidate like Obama. Now I believe why most Clinton supporters are scum heads who can be easily fooled by Rebublicans who have pulled a great nation like USA so low that if they elect Macain, we Europeans will pull back and laugh at your ignorant and stupidity!!!(I guess you dont even care, fools!!!)
However I know that young and smart Americans will see the light and go with change (Obama)as the world wants change.
My advise for positive thinking Americans is to post comments on blogs advising Clinton supporters that hard core Rebublicans are disguising as democrates on line to fool them as they are illitrates and can be easily fooled .
FRom Bavaria Germany.
Funny… a German liking a cult figure like Obama. The world already had a charismatic leader in Hitler…. we don’t need another (Obama).
Carter was a much better president than Bush. He was a true Christian leader. He didn’t squander thousands of lives to appease his blood-lust. If you ask yourself, “what would Jesus do?”, look at the life of Jimmy Carter (J.C) for an answer.
George W. Bush will have to face the judgement of his maker in the next life, and if we’re lucky, he’ll be tried as a war criminal in this life. I pray for that day.